Archive for November, 2020

Science week in 5th class💥🌈🎈

5th class wish it was science week EVERY week! We are having a ball! 🌈🎈💥 We experimented with our senses -We discovered our minds can be tricked by our sense of sight, and smell in order to taste a flavour! Using yummy skittles we eliminated our sense of sight and smell to try to guess […]

Making ANOTHER Mess!!

Day four of science week in first class! 🧪 🧬 We learned that oil and water do not mix while preparing our first experiment!! We created “Fireworks in a jar” 🎇💥 and we loved looking at the way the food colouring looked when it came through the oil into the water! 🎇 Then we created a BIG […]

Marshmallow Houses 😄

To start our Science week, second class completed a number of investigations including “Baling Soda Balloons” and “Bouncing Raisins” which involved just baking soda and vinegar! Each girl then had to tackle a number of construction challenges using only spaghetti and marshmallows 👷🏼‍♀️🏘 It involved a lot of trial and error and sticky hands but […]

A magical way to inflate balloons

Day 3 of science week was a big hit in first class. We learned how to inflate a balloon without losing our breath! We used vinegar and baking soda to create carbon dioxide which inflate the balloons! We were amazed 🤩🎈   IMG_1894

A shaky start to science week

Today in first class we got to shake, shake, shake because we made ….ICE CREAM!!!! 🍦 🥳🤩We watched a science week video all about the science behind food. We had so much fun shaking the bags to different songs with shake in them! We also did a taste test to show how we need all of […]

How clean are our hands?

We love experimenting in first class. On Monday we rubbed our hands on bread when they were dirty, sanitised and washed with soap and water. We hope to see some changes in the bread due to the bacteria on our hands 🤞🏻 We also have an untouched slice of bread to compare the changes to.

Science Week Day 1 Infants

Infants investigated what happens when you add warm water to a plate of skittles!!                     

Science Week Day 1 in Rang 6

Scientist Marty Jopson creepy crawled into our classroom showing us headlice, wood lice, house spiders, pond water, hydra and blood to name but a few!     It was a super interesting presentation and kicked off Science Week in style!!

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